Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and His Wife’s Chair. (no. 7.), sentence 8

The rock on which she sat is just like a big chair and is on the Rama Reserve.

Who acts: beaver, rock · What happens: sit, be · To what, where: rock, Rama Reserve

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Nanabush and His Wife’s Chair. (no. 7.). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beaver, rock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rock	det
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chair	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 which	case
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sat	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rock	acl:relcl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 chair	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	12 chair	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 chair	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 chair	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chair	amod
12	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Reserve	cc
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Reserve	cop
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 Reserve	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Reserve	det
17	Rama	Rama	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Reserve	compound
18	Reserve	Reserve	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 chair	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 chair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	beaver	the rock		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
2	is	present	the rock		like a big chair and the Rama Reserve	tree rules
3	is	present	the rock not said here	the Rama Reserve		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Project Gutenberg book 76755 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and His Wife’s Chair. (no. 7.), sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Nanabush and His Wife’s Chair. (no. 7.), sentence 8